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There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. — Homer

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed. — Kingsley Amis

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. — William Shakespeare

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. — Sophocles

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. — Elie Wiesel

With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

unctuous way he had. "How you must have yearned — George R R Martin

Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women. — Terry Pratchett

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. — Henry Rollins

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. — Plutarch

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. — John Thorn

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection. — Samuel Johnson

Poetry is a useful place for lamentation ... poems are a place where we can cry out. — Bell Hooks

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one? — Alexander The Great

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. — Seneca The Younger

There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash. — Laura A. Lord

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be. — Yanni

Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitionin from fittin in to standin out. — Drake

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. — Gautama Buddha

There is but one truth, and that truth is a lamentation. — Temptor Pricnegsur